My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.

I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself... The Creator always gives me the energy.

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song - how I move.